19th Four-University Joint Cultural Lecture Series held

December 16, 2024

On Saturday, November 30, 2024, the ��19th Four-University Joint Cultural Lecture Series: The Cutting Edge of Academic Research: Environment, Society, and Humanity�� was held at the Prometheus Hall in the Agora Global Building of our university.

In March 2001, TUFS, Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Tokyo Institute of Technology), and Hitotsubashi University formed a four-university alliance with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and education, and developing new human resources that had not been possible to achieve in higher education up to that point, by collaborating on research and education content. As part of this, the four universities have been holding the ��Four-University Joint Cultural Lecture Series��, arranged by the research institutes attached to the universities. (The series name will be changed to ��Three-University Joint Cultural Lecture Series�� from 2025 onwards).

In the program, after the opening address by TUFS President Kayoko Hayashi, Tsubasa Takahashi, a fourth-year student at the School of Language and Culture Studies, and Chitoshi Oda, a second-year student in the Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of Global Studies, introduced campus life at TUFS. After that, four lecturers from each university gave lectures on their respective fields of expertise. From TUFS, Associate Professor Mayumi Adachi of the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa delivered a lecture entitled ��The Appeal of Vietnamese Interjections Research: Words that Come Out Without Thinking��.

The event came to a close with closing remarks from President Yujiro Tanaka, Institute of Science Tokyo.